I’m Jenny I have worked as a volunteer for about 16 years. Several years ago, I got a serious illness so I ______ stop working. My sister advised me to do some volunteer work. After thinking about it ______, I accepted her suggestion. Then I decided to start volunteering in a ______. There we helped the patients by ______ them. In the chapel(小教堂) near the hospital, we took turns to say our prayers(祈祷) for patients. We each had a ______ room where we could talk to the sick people by ourselves. There others couldn’t disturb us. In the hospital, I would make tea, clean the rooms and talk to the sick people ______ I saw them sitting alone there or having visitors to see them. I went to the chapel every Wednesday afternoon and ______ to the hospital on the second Monday every month.

There were many good things ______ volunteering, such as meeting a lot of new people and building a friendship with them. We were always ______ and relaxed. I feel useful now and it’s a great thing to think I am making ______ to someone. I think if I keep on working, I can always bring pleasure to both others and myself.

Aisha lived far from her school. So she always took a bus to school with her best friend, Allen. Another two of her classmates were on the same bus.

Every day the four children waited for their school bus for fifteen minutes, on the same dirty street. There were many old bottles, parts of old bikes, and empty cans everywhere around the bus stop. The trees on, the street had no leaves and seemed to be dead, and there weren’t any flowers on both sides of the street. The street looked dirty and ugly.

One Friday, Aisha looked at the dirty street and decided to do something about it. The next Monday, she took a bag and collected some of the old bottles for recycling. On Tuesday, it took her another ten minutes to pick up old bottles. Her best friend saw it and collected empty cans and put them in a different bag to recycle. On Wednesday, all the other children joined them in collecting. The street became clean!

Though the street looked cleaner but it still looked gray. So the next day the girls planted some flowers along the road. They watered them, and watered the trees there, too. Even though the children only had ten minutes a day to do so, that was enough.

Half a year later, this street became a beautiful street with many flowers and green trees. Maybe a big difference only needed ten minutes a day. All of us should spend ten minutes a day helping our cities become cleaner and greener.

In many parts of the world, many students help their schools make less pollution. They join environment clubs. In an environment club, people work together to keep the environment clean.

Here are the things students often do.

Save the water! Do you know that some toilets can waste twenty to forty tons of water an hour? In a year, that would fill a small river. In environment clubs, students repair those broken toilets.

No-car day. On a no-car day, nobody comes to school in a car, neither the students nor the teachers. Cars will cause air pollution. So remember: walk, jump, bike or run. Use your legs! There’s lots of fun!

No-garbage(fit) lunches. How much litter do you throw away after lunch? Environment clubs ask students to bring their lunches in bags that can be used again. Every week they will choose the classes that make the least garbage to report to the whole school!

We love our environment. Let’s work together to make it clean!

Our world is becoming better and better. Though many people waste natural resources(资源), some people still come up with many ways to protect our environment and save energy.

For example, in America, some farmers have a new way of using cow wastes. They use them to produce electricity.

Let me say something about it. A big machine moves back and forth clearing the floor. The machine pushes the manure(粪肥) into a big tank like a small swimming pool. The tank is called a digester(化粪池). Bacteria(细菌) get to work and continue to break up the manure. A “greenhouse” gas keeps heat just like a greenhouse. The gas causes our planet to warm up. But the digester has a good result. People can keep and use the gas to power electric generators(发电机). They can not only help farmers deal with cow wastes but also help farmers earn much money.

In the future, more and more people can develop more machines to save energy and protect our environment.

Kate Klock is a 14-year-old girl from America. She put some large     61     (box) in some supermarkets on August 29 this year. What did she do? She hoped people would collect food     62     poor kids.

Kate is a kind girl, and she is always     63     /ˈredi/ to help others, especially children. This summer she saw some kids on the street who had nothing to eat. The children’s living conditions made Kate very     64    . She thought kids should grow up and study     65     (happy). So she decided to do everything she could to help them.

She put some boxes at the stores as well as her home.     66     when people passed by, they could put some food in the boxes. She made her project “Hunger Hero” . That’s     67     she wrote on her poster behind the box.

However, some stores didn’t let her in when she wanted to place her boxes in     68     (they) stores. But after they knew Kate’s reasons, they were glad to     69     /ˈɒfə(r)/ a helping hand.

“Some people are short of food in the world, even around us. They may be our neighbors, teammates or even classmates.”said Kate. “I believe more people will     70     /dʒɔɪn/ me, because the world is full of love and kindness.”

71. 根据所给的图画写一篇不少于80词的短文(开头已给出，不计入总词数)。

Many years ago, there were many trees on the mountains.